dmenu should work. Using System.Process you can get the stdout of dmenu
(which will contain what the user typed in or the option they selected)
when run as such:
> echo "option1\noption2" | dmenu -p Input:
You should also consider using XMonad.Prompt, which should allow an
arbitrary string input optionally with completion. There are many uses of
it under the XMonad.Prompt. namespace in xmonad contrib.
* On Thursday, February 19 2009, lowly coder wrote:
>I need to get a string from the user + do funky things with it.
>>This is like inverse of spawn "xmessage ... "
>>Dmenu does not "work" because I don't want to immediately run the program --
>I need xmonad to get the string + do things with it + control how the
>program is started.
>>How can I do this?
>>Thanks!
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